The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-16
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

She carries the sweets in a water-tight silver
casket at her waist
FINE old dwelling in Deerfeld. n. H, that
was burned some nights ago, was built by the
owners grandfather 125 years ago, and had
been occupied by three generations o. the
family.
The Tacomd (W t. Leader is authority for
the statement that "a wicked small boy who
noticed that young lady's hustle was dislocated
the other day, shouted out: Say, bliss, your
hereafter is out of place.
A RAILWAY TRAIN, drawn by single locomo-
tive, passed over the Hudson River railroad
recently. consisted of eight mail and baggage
cars and twelve passenger coaches the latter
nearly all heavy sleeping and paror cars.
SAMUEL DAVENPORT, of Nantcoke, Pa, was
killed on Wednesday by the fall of topconl in
the Grand Tunnel mine of the Susquehanna
Coal Company On the same day Levi, his son,
was struck and killed by loaded car III another
part OF the same mine.
A COW brought to Kewaunee, Wis, to be sold
for beef large and had two tails the extra
one being on the left side of her neck, "nd the
length and size of a boys arm covered VIII,
hair. The tail on her neck was used to good
purpose in fly time for by n slight toss of her
head she could flop the tail from one side OF her
head to the other.
A WESTERN town, Appleton, Wis, which
conld have the free postal delivery system de-
clneS the luxury a merchant explains IL Dy
saying that the post office is the general rem
devious. The old men go there to talk politics,
and the young men go there to meet their girls,
and there Is no wide spread desire 10 nave let
ters carried to the houses"
Gov LEE, of Virginia, who has returned from
a hunting and fishing expedition he had at Dag
| gers Springs with Gen. Wade Hampton, relates
that while he was out in the woods rugged up i'll
a fantastic hunting costume, he stumbled upon
party of mountain girls picking huckeberrles,
| whereupon one of the members cried: Great
| Jimmy, girls, there's bear" and they threw
| away their baskets and fed.
AN innovation has been made within year or
two in the style of hose worn by certain class
| of New Workers The change is not one of
| quality but of form. 1t consists in providing
| separate pocket for each toe. after the fashion
| of glove. This makes the regular 'dgltated ~
| hose, but there is also "one-toed' style, made
| like q Initten, with Il separate pocket for the
| great toe. Leading dealers say that many of
| these stockings are sold.
In his memoirs, Gen. CluScret, the Communist,
relates that after the Versailles troops entered
| Paris he was saved by a priest to whom he had
| given facilities to see Archbishop Darboy in his
| prison He knocked at his door and said: You
| recognize me! You know what want !" The
! priest replied: Perfectly; you are at home. :"
| He provided NJ. Cuseret with ecclesiastical cos
| tune, kept him for five months and with the aid
| of his order got him safely across the frontier
| into Belgium"
THE gold held by the Treasury in its vaults at
| Washington weighs H19 tons. If packed into
| ordinary carts, one ton to each cart, it would
make a procession two miles long, allowing
| twenty feet of space for the movement of each
horse and cart. The silver in the same vaults
weighs 1906 tons. Measuring it in carts, as in
| the case of the gold it would require the SER
vices of 1896 horses and carts to transport 1t
and would make procession over twenty-one
| miles in length.
| 20 Tar,
has sprung up, building club having been
established a few years ago, under the opera
| ton of which 1870 houses were erected in four
years by the Jews; while along the Jaffa road
many country villas have been erected of late
| by European residents as summer abodes; The
| latest development Of the building of new
houses without Jerusalem is to be found in the
| enterprise which has led to much building be-
ing done on the slopes of the Mount of Olives,
| the summit of which is crowned with the
Church of the Ascension,
THE Boston Euening Record says that some
thing like week ago the Edison Electric Light
| Company began to dig trench along Boylston
street for the purpose of laying their wires. AS
| the worl1men ascended the hill they encoun-
| tered the graves and vaults which extend from
| the burial ground on the common under the
mall and into Boylston street. The roofs of the
| graves were broken in, and their contents
thrown out on the side of the street with earth,
| brick and ston. Scattered all along the side of
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| human skeletons. Some of these bones have
| been hung up on the fence of the common,
| where they are the subject of scurrilous jests.
| QUEEN ANNE's old home at Wandsworth Uon-
| dom the Manor House, is threatened, as the site
is coveted for building purposes. Designed by
Wren, the Manor House was gift from Charles
| ii. to This niece Anne on her marriage with
| George of Denmark. Here Anne lived for
| eighteen years befo ascending the throne, and
| even when Queen, she is said to have returned
| liz -
| arms are still visible below the gable, while on
| one of the wall panels can be seen a portrait of
| Anne's mother, Anne Hyde, the first wife of
| James H. The hall staircase and wall panel
| ngs are adorned with wood carvings by Grin
ling Gibbons, and paintings by Sir James
| Thornhill.
THE capital of Dakota is now quite perma-
nently located at Bismarck The capitol build
ing consists of one wing of the main building
which it is proposed" to erect some day. This
wing lops some, and the wind has blown the tin
| roof off and cyclone has partly demolished
| the gable end. A good many of the windows
are boarded up and 5000 or 5000 of the brick
| on the north side have been pricd out of the
| mortar and carried home by members Of the
| last Legislature. The bar in the basement is a
| little shaky, being only second hand bar any
how. Take it altogether, the building is not ex-
| actly what 1t should be, but at the same time,
| the capital is pretty firmly located at Bismarck.
1t is thought that its time for excursions is
| past.
EACH set of the four great locks of the Man
chester, Eng ship canal now in process of con-
struction, comprises large lock, five hundred
and fifty feet by sixty feet; smaller lock, three
hundred feet by forty, for ordinary vessels; and
| one lock one hundred feet by twenty, for coast
| ers and barges of the smaller size; aud all of
these are capable Of being worked together.
| Each set of locks will be worked by hydraulic
power, thus enabling it is asserted, vessels to be
! passed in the brief period of fifteen minutes 1t
| Is also expected by the projectors of this great
| undertaking that Irwell and Mcrsey rivers
| which will be diverted into the upper reaches Of
the canal-will supply more than sufficient
! water for the locks. even in the drcst season.
| According to the plans of working at present
contemplated, the expectation is entertained
| that vessels will be able to navigate the canal
| with safety at a speed of five miles an hour, and
| that the Journey from the entrance at Eastman
| to Manchester will be accomplished in eight
| hours.
THE head of one of the biggest restaurants in
Chicago came very near losing q customer the
other day by asking him if he knew how to eat
corn in the ear The customer Yankee-like
spanked mp with this query: "Do you take me
| for hogy' After reconciliation the restau-
rant man talked as follows: mo one man in
! fifty knows how to eat corn in the ear so as to
| get at the good of it. In the first place admit
that no man or woman looks very pretty with
| an ear of corn in his or her mouth The fact is
! there Is no artistic way 70 eat Il. Take your
| ear of corn and lay IL across your plate or
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